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Biographical Note

:
Henry Clay Russell was a member
of Comany H, 2nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. After
the war, Russell became a member of the United States Police in the West Tennessee
District, and then was a state legislator in Nebraska. There he held the positions
of Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Department Commander of the
Nebraska G. A. R., and postmaster of Schuyler, Nebraska, in Colfax County.
He died in 1902, in Schuyler, Nebraska.

Scope and Content

sThe
Henry Clay Russell collection primarily contains manuscript letters, written
by Russell to his sister, Mary E. Russell (Miles) of Crawfordsville, Iowa.
Letters describe his military activity, his wounds and living situations,
and ask for information about family and friends in Iowa. The majority of
the letters are written from Memphis, where Russell spent the final years
of the war and then joined the United States Police for the West Tennesee
District. Though the stream of letters ends in Memphis in 1865, Russell made
his final home in Nebraska, and the collection includes a mourning resolution
by Nebraska's G. A. R., issued at Russell's death, and a copy of the Schulyer
Sun of July 9, 1902, in which there is a long article about Russell's
funeral service.

Box
1

Correspondence

1861

29 June, [Cameron?]

3 November, no location

15 November, Camp Benton

1862

8 September, [Fight?] Hosp[ital]

23 November, [Rienzo], Mississippi

1864

23 February, Pulaski, Tennessee

23 March, Pulaski, Tennessee

1865

3 January, Memphis, Tennessee

31 January, Memphis, Tennessee

[?] February, Memphis, Tennessee

6 April, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis, Tennessee

10 August, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis, Tennessee

7 September, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis,
Tennessee

14 September, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis,
Tennessee

24 September, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis,
Tennessee

12 October, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis, Tennessee

25 October, Office of U. S. Police, Memphis, Tennessee

30 November, 1865, Memphis Tennessee

Miscellaneous

Manuscript, undated. "We, the undersigned
members of the Grand Army of the Republic...."